Old Hand-braided Round Chenille Mat with Great Color antique native american and and an excellent gift

and and an excellent gift for the student

Beautifully made and with tiny beaded eyes

this gracefully raised hand

) The inside of the dress is signed Charlotte

Old Hand-braided Round Chenille Mat with Great Color antique native american and and an excellent giftI just couldn't resist the color on this one, which made me think how nice a grid of hand braided mats in bold and unusual colors would be hung in a grid on the wall. (I've be thinking more and more about relationships between traditional handmade textiles and modern art, painting especially, lately, and can't look at this without thinking of 1960s 70s geometric abstraction and targets, too!) Most of the fabric scraps used to make this one, including